Monday, February 5th, 2024
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
MUS106 Lecture 12: British Blues-Based Bands
- The Rolling Stones cont’d
- longevity: 60 years and still going
- great live performances
- Model Rocker lifestyle (?) — sex & drugs
- music
- minimal chord changes
- blues-based (Chess Records influence)
- mainly guitar riff based
- meant to be played live
- Stones in America (1964)
- somewhat explicit
- visited Chess Records and ended up recording there
- noticed the deeply rooted presence of racism (African Americans have to enter through back entrance)
- Andrew Loog Oldham compelled them to write their own songs (so that they can earn money instead of having pay royalties)
- “Satisfaction” (1965)
- riff driven
- reall simple chords
- lyrics about sex again
- press suspects this is about masturbation
- provocative
- “Satisfaction” (1965)
- British Blues-Based Bands
- The Rolling Stones
- Freddie and the Dreamers
- The Hollies
- Moody Blues
- The Spencer Davis Group
- The Yardbirds
- The Yardbirds
- began as electric blues “originalists” (e.g. imitate Chess Records songs and other original blues songs as faithfully as possible)
- triumvirate of guitar heroes
- Eric Clapton
- Jeff Beck
- Jimmy Page (when he’s the only guitarist left in band, changed the band to “The New Yardbirds”: Led Zeppelin)
- Crawdaddy Club
- premier London Rhythm and blues club
- residencies: The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin
- ”For Your Love” (1965)
- topped British charts
- what caused Clapton to quit the band (the band was turning too commercial for his blues taste)
- The Spencer Davis Group
- Steve Winwood: vocals, organ
- Later, Traffic (no idea what this means on slides)
- Hammond B-3 Organ plus Leslie cabinet speaker
- new staple for jazz and rock organ (smaller form factor than a pipe organ)
- tweeter spins around and creates a kind of classic vibrating sound thanks to the Doppler effect.
- 1960s
- Mods and Rockers: two British subcultures in the early 1960s (then was eclipsed by the hippies movement)
- Mods
- rode scooter
- wore suits
- like amphetamines
- middle-class
- American jazz, soul
- hated Rockers
- Rockers
- rode motorcycles
- wore leather jackets
- disliked drugs
- more lower class
- favored 50s rock and roll (e.g. Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley)
- hated Mods
- Both were villified by mainstream British society as “social deviants” & degenerates — a phenomenon described as “Moral Panic” (Stanley Cohen, 1972) similar to how Blackboard Jungle & teenage defiance is villified.
- In May 1964 (spring break), rumors were spreading that Mods and Rockers were going to have a fight in one of the beaches—actually happens. Tourists come out to watch the fight.
- Press comes out to villified them even more, selling on the fear of the public.
- Mods
- The Kinks
- quintessential Mod band
- led by brothers who actually hate each other: Ray and Dave Davies
- came to the US to ride the Beatles’s British Invasion
- was banned in USA, 1965-69
- fighting on stage → banned from playing public shows
- ”You Really Got Me” (1964)
- “All Day and All of the Night” (1965)
- The Who
- another quintessential Mod band
- modern
- members
- Pete Townshend, guitar & song writer
- created the first rock operas
- Roger Daltrey, vocals
- John Entwistle, bass (“Thunderfingers”, “Ox”)
- Keith Moon, drums (first to use double bass drums on the stage)
- Pete Townshend, guitar & song writer
- known for instrument destruction
- landmark song: “My Generation” (1965) which captured the frustration of the young generation trying to fit in (lack of social mobility in a post-war society, unlike the US)
- destroyed their instruments at the end of the show
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